Join us at the 2026 ALACC Annual Meeting this June 5-7, 2026 at The Grand Hotel Golf Resort & Spa for high-quality education and valuable networking opportunities in beautiful Point Clear, Alabama.
A limited number of rooms have been reserved for conference attendees. The group rate will be available through May 13, 2026, or until the room block is filled, whichever comes first. Click here to reserve your room at The Grand Hotel.
Agenda
*subject to change without advanced notice
Friday, June 5th
5:30 p.m. Welcome Reception - Julep Point
Saturday, June 6th
6:00 a.m.
Strolling Breakfast - Exhibit Hall
7:00 – 7:05 a.m.
Welcome
Harish Doppalapudi, MD & Chris Roth, MD - Education Chairs
7:05 – 7:10 a.m.
FIT Case Presentation7:10 – 8:00 a.m.
The 2026 Richard Russell Lecture -
2026 Dyslipidemia Guidelines with Vera Bittner, MD, MSPH, FACC - Professor of Medicine, UAB
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Independent CME Session: Rising to the Challenge of Unmet Needs in ACS, SSP, and AF Through Next-Generation Anticoagulation Strategies with Marco Perez, MD - Director, Stanford Cardiac Electrocardiography Laboratory; Director, Stanford Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmia Clinic, Palo Alto, CA
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Morning Break
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Imaging of soft and vulnerable plaque- Can we predict ACS? with Tushar Mishra, MD - Interventional Cardiologist, Cardiology PC and Princeton Baptist Medical Center
10:10 – 10:15 a.m. FIT Case Presentation
10:15 – 12:15 p.m. Panel session: Cardiogenic Shock
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Acute Heart Failure: Heriberto Matos-Santana, MD - Assistant Professor, UAB
10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Mechanical Circulatory Support: Gautam Reddy, MD - Director, Structural Heart Interventions, Huntsville Hospital
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Shock in Acute MI: Akshay Khandelwal, MD MBA FACC FSCAI - System Chair, Dept of Cardiovascular Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
11:45 – 12:15 p.m. Discussion and Q&A
12:15 – 12:30 p.m.
Networking Break with Partners & Lunch Buffet
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch Program: Panel Session: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Update in Traditional CRT with Ruchit Shah, MD, FACC, FHRS -Associate Professor, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, UAB
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Conduction-System Pacing with Michael Kaufmann, MD - Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Huntsville Hospital
1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Discussion and Q&A
6:30 p.m.
Family Night on the Beach - Grand Ballroom Patio and South Beach
Sunday, June 7th
6:30 a.m.
Breakfast
7:00 – 7:30 a.m.
ACC Update & Awards
Fadi Hage, MD, ALACC Chapter Governor
Akshay Khandelwal, MD, ACC Board of Trustees
7:30 – 7:35 a.m.
FIT Case Presentation
7:35 – 8:20 a.m.
Neurocardiogenic Syncope & POTS
Italo Biaggioni, MD
8:20 – 8:25 a.m.
FIT Case Presentation
8:25 – 9:30 a.m.
Panel Session: Cardiogenomics
8:25 – 8:55 a.m.
From Genetic Diagnosis to Personalized Medicine with Pankaj Arora, MD, FAHA, FASE - Professor of Medicine, Tenured Director, Cardiovascular Clinical and Translational Research Program Director, UAB Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease
8:55 – 9:15 a.m.
Genetic counseling for Individuals & Families with Catherine Smith, MS, CGC - Genetic Counselor, UAB
9:15 – 9:30 a.m.
Discussion & Q&A
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Update in Recent Clinical Trials
Brittain Heindl, MD
*Cancellations made 30 days or more in advance of the event date, will receive a 100% refund. Cancellations made after the 30-day window will not receive a refund for the event.
